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Palliative Care

POLST: Guiding Providers in End of Life Care

5/23/2016 Lindsay Weaver, MD , Elaina DiOrio, MD

POLST: Guiding Providers in End of Life Care It is 9 a.m. in the emergency department when triage announces overhead, “Cardiac arrest. 5 minutes.” A few minutes later, the EMS crew arrives actively d

Editorial , Editor's Forum

Letter from the Editor

5/23/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD

Letter from the Editor Spring has sprung, summer is almost here, moods and pool covers have been lifted. Residency is flying by, and like seasons, the more I know and the more experiences I have, the

Affordable Care Act , Legislation , Health Policy

Affordable Care Act: 5 Years Later Are We There Yet?

5/23/2016 Zachary Meisel, MD, MPH, MSHP , Erik J. Blutinger, MD, MSc

Affordable Care Act: 5 Years Later Are We There Yet? Just 5 years ago, millions of Americans entered a new era of health care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was born and sold as the solution for impr

Clinical , Cardiology , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge

5/6/2016 Zachary S. Wilson, MD

ECG Challenge Case A 76-year-old female with dementia and unknown cardiac history presents with chest pain and palpitations for 4 hours. Answer Atrial fibrillation preceded and followed by paced beat

Award Winners

We Found Our Spring Awards Recipients!

4/25/2016 EM Resident

We Found Our Spring Awards Recipients! We searched far and wide for the best of the best, and we found you! Please join EMRA in congratulating the 2016 Spring Awards recipients. These outstanding med

Medical Education

ABA, ABEM Announce Combined Residency for EM/Anesthesia

4/21/2016 EM Resident

ABA, ABEM Announce Combined Residency for EM/Anesthesia The American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) have announced the launch of a new option for co

Editorial , Resident

Shift Fatigue

4/7/2016 Patrick Olivieri, MD

Shift Fatigue At the 11th Hour We have all felt it. The fatigue. The hunger. The hazy fog that ensues 11 hours into our shift. How does the average physician react in times of mental exhaustion? Do w

Research , Rapid Research Review

Rapid Research Review: PPV and NPV

4/7/2016 EM Resident

Rapid Research Review: PPV and NPV An Initiative of the EMRA Research Committee Terms Positive Predictive Value (PPV): The probability that a positive test result predicts disease Negative Predictive

Editorial

Leaving our Agendas at the Door

4/7/2016 Michelle S. Mitchell, MD

Leaving our Agendas at the Door Over the past year, many of us have seen images of refugees and migrants attempting to flee countries of political unrest and move toward Western Europe. Many times, m

EMPower

Rebecca B. Parker, MD, FACEP